Diagnoses
A speech impediment where the first sound in a word is uncontrollably repeated.
Character: Billy Bibbit
What is a Stutter?
Imipramine (anti-depressant), meprobamate (anxiolytic), and dilantin (anti-convulsant) were some of these in the 60s.
What is Medication?
A place where patients with psychiatric disorders live and get treatment.
What is a Mental Institution?
Someone who is frightened of becoming dirty and obsessed with cleaning themself.
Character: George
What is a Germaphobe?
The practice of having multiple people talk together about their problems.
What is Group Therapy?
An illness that persists for a long time or is recurring.
What is a Chronic Illness?
A person with a mental disorder that causes them to be abnormally violent and have little empathy or remorse for their actions.
Character: McMurphy
What is a Psychopath?
The practice of putting a patient alone in a room to try and improve their mental state.
What is Solitary Confinement?
A severe illness that can be cured or fixed.
What is an Acute Illness?
A mental disease where you believe there are outward forces trying to hurt you and hallucinate things that are not real.
Character: Chief Bromden
What is Paranoid Schizophrenia?
A supposed treatment for mental problems that involves sending an electrical current through the skull.
What is Electro-Shock Therapy?
What is geriatrics?
A neurological disorder that causes irregular seizures relatively often.
Characters: Sefelt and Fredrickson
What is Epilepsy?
The cutting out of the front part of the brain to change personality and fix mental disorders.
What is a Lobotomy?
A patient, in the book someone who lives in the ward, who is recovering from an illness or surgery.
What is a Convalescent?